This is how and why we get involved

Our passion is to support teams to bring new ideas in to business.

Every day we meet and talk to people that have an idea or want to discuss a new solution with someone from our team. It can be a solution to a problem they have experience themselves in their daily life, sometimes it´s an issue they have been working with for many years in the work or position, or it can be answers, solutions or products from researchers.

We are the lucky supporters.

We involve so you can follow your dream. We use our network, competence and capital so your team will succeed.

Our skill is to find value through ideas so you can go on and create a great company.

Our mandate - why we are doing thisThe University of Stavanger and other collaborative research institutions are committed to being part of the transfer of innovative technologies, even faster and more successfully than before – for the benefit of society.

For us, it´s all about innovation, and we are the support team for new teams and early stage business in many different ways.

How do we fix this?

We use five entrance to the innovation prosess

Technology Transfer Office (TT0)The aim of Validé TTO is to commercialize new innovations and
discoveries that result from acedemic research and research and development (R&D) to another
part for the benefit of the society. Our process involves every stage
of the innovation chain from the identification of innovative ideas
until licensing or start-up venture, throughout securing Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR), innovation management and business development.

Validé TTO’s main mission is to close the gap between science and
industry by building a solid and sustainable bridge between inventors
and industrial partners.

IncubatorEvery year we welcome around 50 companies to join the incubator. Incubation is a method where promising entrepreneurial ideas and startup companies get connected with an established and structured environment to achieve its potential.

Research has shown that 87% of incubator companies survive.

Network, expertice and access to capital is the main resources in the incubator. Companies develope themselves in the incubator 2-3 years.

Early stage investmentValidé invests in companies that are innovative and have growth potential. We have a total of 200 companies in our portfolio (2018) and Validé AS has invested in 80 of these companies (2018).

Validé Invest 1 AS is the name of our pre-seed fund of NOK 30 million. It was established in 2016. We make investments from this fund into two to four companies annually. In total there are seven companies that have received investment from Validé Invest 1 AS.

Public supporters, nationally and regionally, also contribute to early-stage companies through public funding programs.

ClustersWe are always looking for companies that want to innovate together with others. Validé is hosting three clusters, and we are partner with three others.

In Norwegian Smart Care Cluster there are 119 companies and 45 municipalities. In Norwegian Tunnel Safety Cluster we find 100 companies working every day with innovations that will improve the safety of tunnels. In 2018 Norway got the first cluster for the important business sector of energy, Norwegian Energy Solutions (NES) was launched during ONS2018.

VRI's mission is to connect and help establish business / start-up companies and research environments to collaborate to achieve innovation and increased value creation. Our VRI-brokers will also help companies find the right financial support schemes.

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